Paper-bag and twine holder



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. 0. E. KEMBLE.

PAPER BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

No. 399,671. Patented Mar. 19, 188-9.

my EVER: "holn-hlhogmpher. Wzlsllmg'm, u.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

O E KEMBLE PAPER BAG AND. TWINE HOLDER.

No. 399,671. Patented Mar. 19," 1889.

Ii. PNvlwLmlngnp with stares PATIENT trier.

CHAMBERS E. KEMBLE, OF IVILMINGTON, DELAIVARE.

PAPER-BAG AND TWINE HQLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,671, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed July '7, 1888. Serial No. 279,286x (No model.)

T0 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAMBERS E. KEMBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing in *ilmington, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have in vented an Improved Paper-Bag and Twine Holder; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invent-ion relates to devices for holding paper bags for grocers and other dealers use and for holding twine in a ball or package for tying up bags and packages for corresponding use.

My invention consists in the construction and combination hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved paperbag and twine'holder combined. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, the suspending-rod being shown in cross-section; Fig. 3, a central axial section of the suspending-rod and twineholder separate, showing also means for lengthening the suspending-rod Fig. 4, a side view, on a larger scale, of one of the bag-holding hooks, showing likewise a number of bags hung upon the same.

Both the bag-holder and the twine-holder are suspended by a vertical rod, A, which is ordinarily provided wit-h a flange, a, at its upper end, by which it is screwed to a coiling, beam, or other overhead support. Generally the suspending-rod is screwed into the flange, as shown in Fig. On the lower end of this suspending-rod is secured the twineholder 15, which may be of any ordinary or suitable construction, it being shown as a nearlyspherical case with apertures in all parts of its sides of any ornamental form, making it light also, and I usually make it in two parts, 1) c, as shown, hinged together at (Z, and provided with a spring-catch, e, by which it'can be opened for admitting a ball of twine and shutting the same therein. The twine-holder is generally screwed upon the lower end of the suspension-rod.

Since different ceilings vary much in height, and it is desirable that the twine -holder should be at about a uniform height, so as to be conveniently reached by a person standing beneath, and yet be above the heads of persons passing under the same, I provide for lengthening and shortening the suspendingrod for the purpose. I represent in Fig. 3 the preferred means for effecting this lengthening and shortening adjustment. Thus the rod is made in two parts,g and 71, one part, 11, being tubular and sliding closely but freely over the other part, As shown, the inner part, g, is attached to the supporting-flange a, and the tubular part 71 is attached to the twineholder. The two are clamped together at any desired adjustment by a thumb screw, t, screwing through the outer part and pressing against the inner part, as shown in Fig. 3, or by equivalent means.

The paper bag holder is composed of a main body, O, with a fixed suspending-bail composed. of about four arms, 7th 7e 7e, screwed or otherwise secured to the upper edge of the body at their lower ends and brought close together at their upper ends, which are screwed or otherwise secured to a sleeve-block,

'l, which has a vertical round aperture fitting around the suspending-rod A over the twineholder B, so that it can both turn freely around the suspending-rod for bringing different sides of the bag-holder to any one reaching for a bag, and the whole bag-holder can be slid up the rod for getting access to the twine-holder at any time, as for renewing the twine-ball, the twine-holder ordinarily being far up inside of the bag-holder.

The body 0 of the bag-holder is preferably made of polygonal form, it being shown octagonal, whereby plane outer faces are presented, to which the bag-holding hooks D D are pivoted, the polygonal form, as shown in Fig. 2, being peculiarly adapted to the purpose, since two hooks are thus conveniently pivoted near together and near to the middle of each side, as at m m, and the points at n of each pair of hooks are swung away from each other and fastened in catch notches or grooves o 0 in the face of the body, near the corners thereof. The bag-hooks, being made of slightly flexible and elastic wire, are made to spring into the catch-notches, where they are firmly held while the bags are on the hooks, and when the bags are all taken from any one of the hooks it is disengaged from its catch-notch, swung out on its pivot m, and

more bags strung upon the hooksay one hundred at a time.

The form of each hook D is peculiar, as shown particularly in Fig. 4. It has a straight vertical shank, p, which forms the axis that turns in the pivot-hole of the body C. The hook part 7* starts from the lower end of the axis, so as to form a sharp acute angle, 3, on the inside, that will hold a single bag, 09, only; thence the hook extends upward, first at a steep pitch, and gradually less steep, and finally ending at the point in a nearly horizontal direction, as indicated. Thus the bags 50 as, being strung on the hook at uniform distances from the upper edge, will hang from the hook at different heights, the lowest one always being-in the angle of the hook, and the next in order always being considerably higher, so that a person can always take hold of the lower one with ease and certainty, without getting hold of the next in order at the same time. As the bags are successively torn away, the remaining bags on the hook in succession sink down into the angle of the hook, so that all are as easily separated as the first one.

Different sizes of bags are strung upon the different hooks, so that a complete assortment of bags is held by a single holder.

I claim as my invention 1. A combined paper-bag and twine holder consisting of a suspending-rod, atwine-holder secured to the lower end thereof, and a paperbag holder surrounding said twine-holder and depending below the same, said bag-holder being swiveled upon the lower end of said rod above the point of attachment of the twine-holder, substantially as set forth.

2. In a combined paper -bag and twine holder having a suspending-rod,and the twineholder and paper-bag holder suspended therefrom, the suspending-rod formed in two parts, g h, one part attached at the upper end to the support above and the other attached to the twine-holder at the lower end, and one sliding adjustably on the other.

3. In a combined paperbag and twine holder having a suspending-rod, and the paper-bag holder and twine-holder suspended therefrom, the twine-holder fixedly attached to the lower end of the suspending-rod, and the paper-bag holder being adapted to swivel around and slide on the suspending-rod above the twine-holder, as set forth.

4. The paper-bag holder having a body, 0, of polygonal form, and bag-hooks pivoted in pairs on the respective sides of the same, and having their points swung against the said sides and held in catch-notches thereof, substantially as herein specified.

5. The paper-bag holder having a body, C, in combination with the bag-hooks, each having a vertical axis or pivot part by which it is pivoted to said body, and each having a hook part projecting from the axis at a sharp angle and a steep inclination, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAMBERS E. KEMBLE.

IVitnesses:

HENRY O. CONRAD, THOMAS GIFFIN. 

